reiser live from msnbc headquarters in new york on a busy saturday evening. happening right now, a man hunt intensifying in texas for the suspected gunman accused of killing five people, including an eight year old. after authorities say that they asked him to stop firing his gun in his yard. the search underway right now for the suspect. we are following extreme weather coast to coast from heavy rain to snow to dangerous heat. while the midwest faces flooding from the mississippi river, a result of melting snowpack. we will get the latest from iowa. plus, president biden s reelection pitch. she is in the fear of maga republicans to court democratic donors. and a live look at washington where nerd prom is about to be underway. it is the one night every year where you could find the president, top journalists, and hollywood elite all in the same room. we will have a preview of the white house correspondents dinner ahead. we begin in texas where moments ago authorities delivere
i m alicia menendez, coming to you from washington d.c.. we begin this saturday with a 2024 race for the white house. federal prosecutors make moves in the special counsel investigation into donald trump s plot to stay in power. this investigation lingering over the gop presidential primary, as trump remains the top pick among republican voters. on thursday, former vice president, mike pence, testified before the great january six grand jury in d.c.. his testimony could be key, as special counsel jack smith works to piece together trumps effort to block the certification of the 2020 election. today, on msnbc, pence s former aide spoke to ali velshi about this historic testimony. i think he went in there, i think he told the truth. i believe that the truth is on his side. i believe that is the true character who mike pence is. now, here s the issue, i ve been critical of him, as you know, elie, because in the court of public opinion, where it really matters, i felt that mike
when i came here back to india to set up my business in the financial services space, i always heard that there were only two religions in india, cricket and bollywood. i don t have the right thought, but our deal is humongous for cricket, it is one of the best leagues in the world, the ipl has you know become one of the most popular leagues and i think it is one of the top ten leagues in the world. in india, the culture is such that when a son is born, in the family, even to this day, the parents either want him to be a cricketer, a test cricketer or a bollywood star. we talk about the stories i of these players and the fact that you can come from nothing and succeed, and the ipl has i given that opportunity - for so many players to come from nothing and succeed. the ipl for me means the opportunity, you know, you re never going to get the opportunities the ipl presents in any other part of cricket in the world. we are the envy of the world. the ipl is the envy of the world.
congressional black caucus suggested that she janet yellen was in fact a racist. maybe even a white supremacist. what does janet yellen do wrong? they suggested what she did wrong was she failed to harness the power of the federal reserve to help african-americans specifically. now at first janet yellen seemed confused by this point, the point of the fed is to keep the american economy stable. it s not to pay off loyal blocks of democratic voters and tried to explain this. our power, she said, can t be targeted at the experience of particular groups. that was her response. the congressional black caucus did not buy it. their message to janet yellen was the same to you and every other person in the country, do what we say or we will denounce you as a racist. and finally, janet yellen got that message. boy, did she. within a year she had all but abandoned the traditional constraint of monetary policy, and steady there she was yammering on a public about things like racial equit